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Show PASSING SHOW OF 1913 Reviews the Past Season s Successes TANGO 'IS DANCE MOTIF Chinese Troop Has Trotted All the Way to New York and is Ragging Some There. By Vanderheyden Fytes Sc- YorV, August 1?13. "THE PASSING SHOW OK 101.V A munlral rerun re-run In two acts k nrt iwolvc f.ccncn, by Ned Way-liuni Way-liuni .mil Harold " AltcrlilRC. Murlc ty Jcuu Schwartz ami Al. W. Drown, (Winter Garden.) Ch.irleu MrNauce Tony Hunting Scarecrow Stone Rreddlc Nlco Piinklnlicul Montgomery ........ Charles Detlavcn Nevcr-Suy-Dlr Collier Wellington Cross .(Oicph Am.-tic Kaylon Horhcrl Cortlicll Tlii Parcel Pofiltn.iit Low Drlcc An Kx-Prcnldcni IMward Uosloy liromlivjy Jones Clmr'cs Kin;; The Man Who .Mnkoj Noises lUrry Olltol Woody Sidney (Jrnnl Joe Ciftreon George Mnlrc Connplracy Dill Frank Conroy Innpector Durkc John C Thomas Mi. roilplir'a Dutlcr Gcorsc Hanlon II Ik ltcllec-tlon Gcorsc r'onl riilcissn Rod Henry Dntloff null? 1 11 1 1 lo Iliirkc Corlnno Francex Clnik'rell.i Jnnls I, a urn Hamilton The Sunshine Girl Txils Jnpliluc The Tlr Lillian Grac Klmboll Mm. Pntlphnr Mny Holey Pen o' .My Hcirt Molllo King Gaby Gwondolln Lillian Gouiic Mary Turner Charlotte Greenwood I'uvIoviiaperdauKky Beanie Clayton MkrIc Popper Virginia Gunlhnr Patrlrln Paprika. Nell CarrlnRton Lettle Lettuce Noll Howard OMvo Oil Irene Markay nPIIIGV'H.E offl The first entry for - tlic theatrical season or 1013-1014 1013-1014 has mmlc a lively getaway. The furious race Is on now until the summer sum-mer of 101 1. As was the case a year ago, the forerunner of the season Is one of those huge and sumptuous conplomcrntlonB of spectacular effect. crowdH of girls, and dances, soups and monologues. Nothing on the Winter Garden scale Is anywhere lo be seen, except, in Its somewhat different way, at the ?IIppodrotnc. "The Passing Show of 1913" Is. according to the programme and to fact, "a kaleidoscopic kaleido-scopic review of some of the past season's successes, topics and events," and was, on the word of that, tame authority, "realized and staged" by Ned Wayburn. Noils Noi-ls the largeness of the type disproportionate dispro-portionate to his share In the success, when one measures It by the slzo of the letters In which Harold Atterldge,. author, and Jean Schwartz and Al W. Brown, composers, arc named. When the entertainment lias undergone under-gone tho pruning process of which Its premiere revealed it much in need and In the doing of which the Winter Win-ter Garden Is- adept, more modest merits of authorship doubtless will blossom Into view; but as It Is, the .spectacular effects were the triumphs tri-umphs of a jammed, perfumed, cllt-tcrlng cllt-tcrlng Broadway evening. TN the prologue, the TIrc-d Busl-ness Busl-ness man Is led to his orchestra chair. In the front row, whero, quite naturally, he falls immediately Into an uneasy sleep. Therefore the new play that we sec through his eyes Is a Jumble of characters and scrappy bits of plots from pieces of the last season on Broadway, rather than an IndcpcdCiiit and coherent story In Itself. It-self. Peg o' My Heart, you see, arrives ar-rives on Broadway aa a wide-eyed stranger from Ireland, to receive a legacy: and great might have been her troubles had she not Immediately Immediate-ly met and fascinated Broadway Jones, a rival, public favorite of Ncver-Sny-Dle Collier, who Is himself In love with the Sunshine Glii, Ibis fact bringing on calcium songs of sentiment at required Intervals. Now, Peg o' My Heart, you must know, lias a wicked aunt In Mrs. Potlpher, who has a scheme to Induce Joseph Asche Kay ton. a chrysanthemum detective de-tective with an alarm clock strapped to his wrist, to kidnap Peg. whereupon where-upon '.Mrs. P. herseli will Inherit the money and take Joseph as her second sec-ond husband. But Joseph A. K, le an upright detective and refuses lo he tempted, even In a beautiful deep bliio lent at midnight. However, helloes he-lloes employ Joe Carson, always within with-in th law. and Conspiracy Bill lo do the kidnapping, which thev accomplish ac-complish In the midst of the excitement excite-ment caused by a great ca Ice-walk in Tango Square, contested bv all of the foregoing characters, and Cinderella Cin-derella Jnnls datu-ing with Punkln-hcad Punkln-hcad Montgomery and Scarecrow Stone, the Fresh Little Rich Girl and the Good Utile Uyvel. the I-'alr Lillian Lil-lian (who knows how to live 100 vearsi and a monstrously fat ex-prcs-Idcut. and many other celebrities, Ju ml tied In the fevered brain of the slumbering firsl-niliter. This scene of Tango Square is the first of the numerous great sights In "The Passing Show of 11113." As a basis, the northerly end of l.ongacre Square has hcen taken, with Broadway Broad-way shooting Into the distance at one angle and Seventh avenue at another. an-other. B-Jl fact has hoen touched off by fancy, imlil the actually bewildering bewilder-ing Intius of blinding lights Ix-come , avenues of Aladdin palaces. After air opnlng chorus and "Mv Cinderella Girl." sung and danced" bv Charles Ucllavcn and Freddie Nice in excellent excel-lent Imitations of .Montgomery "& Stone, with Laura Hamilton, whose own brig lit charm excuses her complete com-plete dissimilarity to lClsIe .lanls Wellington Cross find Lois Josephine come on to sing about Broadway a hundred years from now, a subject on wiiich they may be mild to be niort? ready thmi authentic. A littlo latt-r. after Peg o' My Heart and little lit-tle yellow do have been dumped out nt a sack iu which a parcel postman has oroiighl them fiom Ireland, ahe smga "My Irish Borneo." hacked up by a stageful of dancing girls. In bi-witc.ilng bi-witc.ilng Idealizations of Irish peasant dresses, with skirts and. slm-klngs of Intense green, while silk shirtwaists, falling awuy at Ihclr throats, and scarlet handkerchiefs knotted In their hair. But most attractive of all Is Peg herself, for she Is MolIIe Kln a vlviielouw. slender, dark-haired frisi! girl who lias only Just passed her .stMfcuitti year. She Is a bister of voting Charles King, lately of Brlcc and King, find iu the now entertainment entertain-ment they dance togother most effectively. effec-tively. He is Broadway Jones. l,! detracts from the attractiveness of bis own personality by an Imitation of Oeorge M. Cohan that is not worth be loss. In n fairly funnv acne In ront of the George M. Cohan thea-lCS thea-lCS Ji'i"1 rCo" ? e Co'dy. moved side llr.cfir l,,,B x-,-lon only. Cohan nn Co ller quarrel in song about thHr rival merits, playhouses and popularity, and, copeclally, about the unMwuwiij.iiii 'H"f7,'bmi mm, size of their respective acting families. fami-lies. BUT wc have wandered from Tango Square." In a tuneful ditly of tho strolling variety. Charles King I leads out one pulcbrltudlnous showgirl show-girl after unother, as teprescnlalive of the girls ho would take to Hector's, Hec-tor's, Louis Martin's, the Palais de Danse, und so on through the lobster lob-ster pulaces, but winding up with pretty little Peg o' My Heart as the right girl "when I want to settle down." Then the Fresh Little Bich Girl, multiplied by thirty-live or forty, sings and dances "Ragging the Nursery Nur-sery Rhymes," the stage being full and animated by the numerous bare-legged squabs in pinafores. That leads t lie Good Little Devil and Bully Bible Burke (Tony Hunting and Corinnc Frances) to protest the langoes and trots arc all very well, but they themselves are for the good old-fashioned old-fashioned cake walk. Thereupon the stage rclllls Itself with a crowd of men and women in the mpnalrous lniLs and gaudy satins, all swinging snappy little canes, who compcio for dat cake with grinning, absolute abandon Indeed, so Inspiriting Is the ragging of the music and the mob that presently the lamp posts of Tango Tan-go Square begin to shake their shoulders: shoul-ders: and finally the very buildings of the Great White Way wobble to tho wriggly rylhm. ry,IIE next big spectacle comes after several less pretentious scenes and brings the first act to a rousing and unique conclusion. We aro supposed sup-posed to be at tho foot of the steps of the capltol at Washington. As wide, practically, ns the uncommonly broad stage of the Whiter Garden and extending from the footlights to the far rear, as high as tho proscenium pros-cenium arch, arc solid looking white steps. Tho effect Is extraordinary. To the statistically Inclined, I may nay there are exactly thirty-six steps, for T counted them. Down these steps march troops of girls, representing . the north, south, east and west of our country by their fantastic garbs. Nor do they merely march down the astounding stairway which, as It leads from such a. height right downward down-ward into the dazzling glare of footlights, foot-lights, might bo feat enough. But some troops descend to fancy steps, while others Rough Riders, representatives represen-tatives of the west come down at a gallop. "V7" FJT this Is only the beginning. -1 Bessie Clayton. In a. gorgeous Oriental costume, appears at the great height, to descend from it on the extreme tins of her talented toes. Then she is joined by an assistant ballet, with whom she whirls up and down the capltol steps with a sinuous abandon possible to very few of us on the smoothest and most steady floor. This Is called "The White Houso Glide," but Is not likely to bo-come bo-come a popular diversion among senators. A young woman reveling in the nnme of Swan Wood Is the next dancer to take the stairway plunge, employing a voluminous spangled senrr lo add to the attractions of her mcoger. but expensive, dress. How-evor How-evor inasmuch as tho audience bv tills time has concluded that some sneclal Providence looks down on tho Winter Garden to protect girls from slipping on a top step and sliding into the very arms of the hald-head row. Swan has to do something- more to take our breath away. And sho does. Producing two large, bloodlhirstv-looklng bloodlhirstv-looklng knives, she whirls about with them for an astonishing period, in the manner of a dancing dcrvi.-h. So If Swan escapes death by bumpln- the bumn::. she has a. good chance with a stlcker.- KTOT to be outdone by woman, who ; Is traditionally tho ruler at th I Winter Garden. Charles Dellmen and Freddie Nice appear, to show how Tar they tan go rin the capltol steps. And theh-.s certainly Is some going! Ihelr gyrations, up and down the steps, is called tho "Tanglo-I'ootcd. Monkey Vreneh Dance." Jim it filv lives up to Its title. Then everybody comes back in new clothes, and marches and dances, the act to a hallelujah conclusion, with rod lights penetrating the apparently solid steps, (lowers hurled about and banners ban-ners unfurled, the brasses beiknvln" and the cymbals crashing, the orchestra or-chestra leader on the verr nf nnn. plexv nnd Broadway is paroxvsm of delight over a show of its onllesl own persuasion. "TI?'JI PTATIQN" Is wl of "Pygmalion and Galatea" tin . to date. Indrod, thb, storv 'of a sen ptor who love- l.!s statue wl S ,Ci vJ Hft'- 155 so to date that It even scorns gaining la udi- er by having the vivified stone ask. What is a kiss?" and "What Is m, "''h. i X'y -vo.u won't hollcvc "ii,.i 1 t,MU. ,,a -"o. The statue, im. jil.v aluod, as It stands In a sort of back p;mtrv. roii.es to lif ,;l Kwcr to the longing of her , ! but Immcd ntely makes u ;" i lh'- gods have w-led that one 1-Uq course. ,an George Monroe savs of t e new cook from Finland, we see the lady's tin s i. But hi for. X. suite! iiie fata k ss. sh d,rw iX of things. A,ld :, lup Sr Fnf JN "Their Weddlns Night," by e ,'lllsh Hetltker, we Tp!S2 VE,wSss a nd Rot ta nd 7 One Si nihil if,ill!n conies ii.r, i i ' llul st reporter publish t w & ato-v '"jre-iteiis to cartering, h0 nBrcerT""""M -ay. more: she wii, to "UH fession in tl e ni,Ln,nlte h?B hc had hopi Mf2Ce f S Stephanie doe? X MrM 1' If- over, and y"Pf .i unshed, hubby . ' J!H a tH forward and offer i ffiw" At that, the ret.owj0 fof5hi hackctted l,v a S rA"0,' to M a handNomc attltu.u nh"?blH voluminous notex. er?i"a OeitnS he has takn enrni-i, L ye. iSf Mrs, Humphrey Ward ?nite toS let class. Did you evA reporter who did mi KP.i Then he goes baVtn tk Vl tor "without hla Hto'?.."1 dtS! whistling -The ffi., 1 Hfi while poor, dear ( W fulls Into hoi- Woocrigli , f Thelr Wedding vLSB a right to all the m?n William Morris 1, 8 lh ""; Wl at lye In "Thc !nterrpCtJ?W Miliars Stuart wwie it flW it may be described as ,r ,lH Mr. Morris plays aM joker, who. like mam. ."""WB Joker. Jokes once C 3! S tlmo il S his humor have discovered an iS.iD,Bi bis wife and his beVfKW he righteously enrage, rtCIM man and woman, thlnklnc tS: been fount out. orar-i fn" by their faces thSt C"fif' ban.) pretended to believe l?B hideously true, W,ciMi Morris has a chaiic?' R tar as Miss Barney; Though taking the subject k9p other angle, the plnylcl fnSt lustrates May Irwin's that a woman should noTSH? busband loo closely or hc what she Is looking for. Bf AT last the Yellow ?imf x reached New York. rSh has. thus far. Invaded onW i! vllle: and. furthermore, case of a dntmatlc playlet fiLM? Yellow Peril" and pXc5l Morris, the yellowness Is ChlnHt any case, wo have made noS resist It. How could wo comes trotting along to nu-.uWli the roof of Madison SauTre ( a "Chinese washing tree" CB version between trols, at IbH; fetoln's. Ching Ling .-0o, iheS dlsltator. stops aside for therS'. music, so distasteful lo the King Gsorge: and at the'lTr Square, four Orientals In AiL, evening clothes sing 8yncornt,!' odlcs as blithely as a colleaBI telle. Indeed, we arc anotBli the Chung II wa Comedy rjB university men, born In Eank Cisco, whlcli may be filed as "JBt ant. If true." Thoy nine In JB that Is, until they venture ,HT undertaking "I Love u UtB" Scottish accents nnd kiltx. K respect to thc "Coniedv Fouf.p Ilcvc more fun would "remit performance of "Runly P7 Strings" by Alia NazImovi,rHil Relcher. Sam Bernard anjEj Netbersole. To which yoa nP" sonablv answer, lhat four atHg enough In .anything. tTi Thc oddity of Chin cue raf-jf given thc added quality of p In the ease of Chee Toy. vh, attention from Citing Ling tH bis tricks, from a rcinurkabkfti athlete of the troupe. anijV from every oiu; except a nB'u yellow toildlers who show tiB ency of Ihe age. In every dHfe seems, by turko -troltlnt; uK as their white-skinned elders.' Toy. with enough perwiwlitjfc,' second Maude Adams, slnfii11 lime in English with Just a tqLj accent and with a tborouglJyW Ian shrug of thc shoulder, Hrf -p HEV all come to il In A muses arc the latest B' cumb. Melpomene, in !norVBt her classic draperies and uKf l lie tango. It happened itHgt P.eacb. a breezy resort from of Now York, where a theiBBi been erected within sound ul of the ocean. A first -chiBht! company was engaged, wlth;fcj no less distinguished UianMiP" land nnd LMwln Ardcti, VH in early autumn, will dive IL, troubled waters of Shakupeipi as Nero In John Drew's reK. "Much Ado About Nothing.' ;MFC as f'asslus in William Farwjfe. "Julius Caesar." The season with "A Butteiny on the WHt with Miss Boland and Mr. WBL worthy substitutes for MadfRB cradgc and Lewis W&llcr. mfPn Mooro and Olive Temple Mf. chaiactei-s they "created '"vflH York production. A few nwfc Miss Boland had to wriggle ift Into a likeness to Alia aI"Bi "Cointosse Coquette." omj gress. presently, to Grace OMH "A Woman's Way." This is the classic Galalcn. Dill ta u me back lo Melpomene. ' found herself crowded o'.01.' favor bv (ho turkey trot, Muse has met the favorite Wednesday and Suttirda' I he dramatic perfornvuirtJB promptly at S o'clock a1 rled through to a coiicltilK Then tho floor Is cleared "mL Hazlltts. Gilbert Chesterton? Ham Winters of the t""Ji out the Jennnctlo Gilders "HMZ vorlto dance steps of ,,nf..Bf The Idea Is splendld-ls WSB: eessfol and opens up bcWlWWB slbllllles. With unlimited prospect, even Diamond JtK; might bo Induced b 81 iTC JP tracedv: and. indeed, W,,?.'BUI versions suaninteed n",r' sharp, a evele of C to"",'Blft! dr.-mas might ho presented Tjio thenter at ne.?fJ.m s.-ml-lnclosed. The maga.g-, over and is rcgsilnrlv tnM the audltorltiin. which "l. . 70rt persons. Is erivre .u JF and-whlte awning, wl'lcn effect, in the wJS. ilble serpentine n1005"' h wav up fro-n Hie tea .y2, week the dance fleor it rTR9 with the usual music, to svitnis employed a' ,i,5iF What lb- dress u !?V"7iMi incs en- I do not know .'ijMt mistake Is made b" only people In ,cl dance, on theater "leMfc stipulation for ' f'tnTW sui-cess of Long I,e",VS,v Iwipti for future ProM rt inffB oP mi.lorls.s. who sJ . frmn the cltv v fro" nM? Island iT.bmlcs for 3'"D'r Blft, bn-ath of sea air. -"fcw' |
